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Editorialization on the why of the title I chose:

This is reported as a preliminary report in other locations (here: https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/Pages/DCA24MM031.aspx)

NTSB is the source, which I feel is appropriate to put in the title. It gives more weight to the report.

The initial title of the article is "Contact of Containership Dali with the Francis Scott Key Bridge and Subsequent Bridge Collapse" which is too long for HN. I felt that the outcome (collapse) was not important to include in the title, and the rest was just shortening in order to make the title more approachable.